Frank Sturing
Sturing with NEC in 2018
Personal information
Full name Frank Sturing
Date of birth (1997-05-29) 29 May 1997
Place of birth Nijmegen, Netherlands
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Centre-back
Youth career
Oranje Blauw
2007–2016 NEC
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2017–2020 NEC 43 (1)
2020–2021 Den Bosch 18 (0)
2021–2023 SV Horn 44 (2)
International career‡
2014 Netherlands U18 3 (0)
2015 Netherlands U19 1 (0)
2016 Netherlands U20 1 (0)
2021– Canada 2 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of June 20, 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 21:50, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

Frank Sturing (born 29 May 1997) is a professional soccer player who plays as a centre-back. Born in the Netherlands, he represents Canada at international level.

Club career

NEC

Sturing started playing soccer in Nijmegen in 2007 with NEC's academy. On 2 April 2017, he made his debut for NEC against Vitesse. In May 2020, NEC announced Sturing would be departing the club.[1]

Den Bosch

In October 2020, Sturing joined rival Dutch second-tier club Den Bosch.[2] At the end of the 2020–21 Eerste Divisie, Sturing departed the club.[3]

SV Horn

In September 2021 Sturing joined Austrian club SV Horn.[4] In April 2022, Horn announced Sturing has been signed to a new deal through the summer of 2022.[5]

International career

Netherlands

Sturing has represented the Netherlands at multiple youth levels.

Canada

Eligible for Canada through his father, Sturing was named to the Canadian U-23 provisional roster for the 2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship on 26 February 2020.[6] He accepted an invite for the Canadian senior national team camp for January 2021.[7] He joined the World Cup qualifier squad in March 2021, and started in the game against Cayman Islands on the 29th; he scored the match's opening goal, his first for Canada.[8]

On July 11, Canada Soccer announced that Sturing would join the 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup squad after Scott Kennedy withdrew from the team.[9]

International goal

Scores and results list Canada's goal tally first.[10]
NoDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.29 March 2021IMG Academy, Bradenton, United States Cayman Islands1–011–02022 FIFA World Cup qualification

References

  1. ↑ "UURDOOR: REDACTIE ABRUPT EINDE VOOR SPELERS MET AFLOPEND CONTRACT". 25 May 2020.
  2. ↑ "Frank Sturing versterkt Bossche defensie". 5 October 2020.
  3. ↑ van der Put, Max (8 August 2021). "FC Den Bosch-captain Wouter van der Steen: 'Ik beweeg als een kameleon mee met de club'".
  4. ↑ "Am letzten Tag des Transferfensters verpflichtete der SV Horn zwei weitere Spieler. Herzlich Willkommen Frank Sturing und Djibril Fandje Toure!". 1 September 2021.
  5. ↑ "SV Horn bindet Kanadier an sich". 26 April 2022.
  6. ↑ "Canada Soccer announces Provisional List for Concacaf Men's Olympic Qualifying". Canada Soccer. 26 February 2020. Archived from the original on 9 March 2020. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  7. ↑ Davidson, Neil (23 December 2020). "TFC's Ayo Akinola accepts invite to Canadian national team camp". CBC.
  8. ↑ "CAYMAN ISLANDS 0-11 CANADA". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on 9 March 2021. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
  9. ↑ "CANADA KICKS OFF GROUP PHASE AT THE 2021 CONCACAF GOLD CUP". 10 July 2021.
  10. ↑ Molinaro, John (29 March 2021). "CanMNT thumps Cayman Islands 11-0 in World Cup qualifying win". canpl.ca. Retrieved 27 December 2022.


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